Health

continuously monitored to measure performance against CYPS standards, the standards set by Bristol City Council and any appropriate statutory requirements. In order to assist in fulfilling this aim, each programme area and individual Educational Establishment and other CYPS sites will, through the appropriate Headteacher or Manager, develop its own Health Safety and Wellbeing Policy and management system where required, which will address the specific hazards associated with the particular services or site activities.

Issue 1.0 February 2007 Page 5 of 29 CYPS Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy 2.4 CYPS Employees All CYPS Employees have a vital role to play in the success of safety performance and shall be expected and encouraged to make suggestions, via their workplace representatives and management, as to how their workplace may be made safer, so that the benefits of Best Practice can be spread quickly to the whole of CYPS. All CYPS employees are reminded of their individual statutory duty not only to be responsible for their own safety but also the safety of all others that may be affected by our activities. Compliance with this responsibility is a condition of employment. Accordingly employees are expected to report issues they feel may prove hazardous to themselves, service users and others.

2.5 Encouraging a 'Risk Aware' culture.

It is both unrealistic and restrictive to teaching, learning and service delivery for CYPS to provide an environment that is entirely risk free. The CYPS approach must, therefore, be ‘Risk Aware’ not 'Risk Averse'. Nevertheless, where a Risk Assessment demonstrates that the level of risk presented is greater than that which is acceptable, effective hazard control measures must be taken to lower the risks to a level that is regarded as being reasonable.

2.6 Teaching Health & Safety Awareness CYPS will endeavor to improve the awareness children and young people have for the health, safety and wellbeing of themselves and others through appropriate integration into teaching and learning activities across all five of the ‘Every Child Matters’ criteria.

2.7 Monitoring and Audit Headteachers and Managers performance will be robustly monitored. Success will be celebrated and support offered where necessary. Where there are serious and ongoing performance issues the intervention stages described in Appendix L of the Headteacher and Manager’s personal HS&W file, and/or other appropriate Department documents, will be triggered.

A rolling programme of supportive audits will be carried out to agreed cycles and outcomes used to feedback actions for improvement, if necessary and inform wider Department leadership and management assessment mechanisms.

Heather Tomlinson Director of Children and Young People’s Services Issue Date: March 2007 Review Date: February 2009 Issue 1.0 February 2007 Page 6 of 29 CYPS Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy 3.0 Organisational Responsibilities 3.1 Director of Children and Young People's Services (CYPS) The Director of Children and Young People's Services is responsible to the Chief Executive for: the Health, Safety, and Welfare performance of the Department  appointing a CYPS Safety Co-ordinator at senior management level to lead on the strategic co-ordination of Health, Safety and Wellbeing organisation and arrangements within the Department, and keep records of all Health, Safety and Wellbeing issues raised, action recommended and action taken etc.   the implementation of the Corporate Health, Safety and Welfare Policy (April 2005) through each of the CYPS Programme Directors and producing, implementing and continually developing a Departmental Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy appropriate to the activities associated with the Department and its employees; children/ young people/ other service users; those with whom it works in partnership, and others who come into contact with or are affected by its activities.